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| Distributed COM Application Development Using Visual Basic 6.0 and MTS | 
| Author: Jim Maloney
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 1449969
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 595
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 7 x 1.3
ISBN: 0130213438
Dewey Decimal Number: 004.36
UPC: 076092004905
EAN: 9780130213433
ASIN: 0130213438
Publication Date: April 16, 1999
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Condition: Former Library book.{Condition Text)
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com Review
Written for the intermediate to advanced Visual Basic developer, Distributed COM Applications Development Using Visual Basic 6.0 ably demonstrates how VB can be used to write powerful, scalable distributed applications using the distributed Component Object Model (DCOM). The book begins by contrasting traditional client/server computing with today's n-tiered architectures (including Microsoft's three-tiered Distributed Internet Architecture [DNA] approach). A general introduction to designing objects with Visual Basic follows in which the author enlists a case study for a video rental database. This includes a presentation of the best of user interface design in VB (including working with TreeView and toolbar controls). You don't need to know much about TCP/IP to use DCOM, of course, but a section on this popular Internet protocol with the WinSock control provides some background material. A full introduction to programming databases with ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) becomes incorporated into the video rental database example. After a quick look at ActiveX controls, the book provides an overview of COM, along with the benefits and potential risks of choosing between DCOM's (often perplexing) threading models. After presenting material on object linking and embedding (OLE) Automation, the book zeroes in on creating DCOM components, data-aware VB objects with transactions and MTS, and real-world deployment issues with DCOM. These chapters provide a state-of-the-art guide to programming with Visual Basic in ways recommended by Microsoft. Armed with these robust DCOM objects, the book next turns to the Web--first with ASPs and then with VB WebClasses for generating browser-neutral Web pages on the fly. (A final chapter looks at creating Active Documents out of VB forms for use with Internet Explorer.) In all, this practically-minded text provides a useful tour for real-world thin-client computing with VB and DCOM. The book assures that today's VB is all you need to write scalable, Web-centric distributed components and applications for the Microsoft platform. --Richard Dragan
Product Description
Presents authoritative comparisons of every Microsoft option for Web development, hard to find information on binary compatibility, and a practical overview of ASP, for anyone ready to build state-of-the-art VB software for the enterprise. Softcover. CD-ROM included. DCL: DCOM (Computer architecture).
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| Customer Reviews: Read 14 more reviews...
 Comprehensive October 9, 2001
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Jim Maloney covers allot of ground and he does it without being cute, like some other authors. It sounds like he's been dealing with students in many seminars. This book is a very good introduction to many important subjects. It's a great place to start learning about VB6.
 Weak in the hands on lab(s). July 22, 2001
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The book is well written and reads easily however the lab is one long program on a video store. I have found that books with these examples tend to get bogged down. Using "one long program" instead of different examples with each chapter, makes it difficult for the reader to skip a chapter because you have to pick up the program where the skipped chapter ended. If you are one who likes the one lab/program, then I think you will like this book better than I did. Otherwise try the Wrox series.
smashin' May 3, 2001
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is a breath of fresh air, not only because it's chock full of real-world examples, but because it's written clearly, concisely and doesn't take up 3 feet of bookshelf space. Perhaps more importantly, it also manages to explain the kind of subject matter that is usually reserved for experienced programmers, but in a way that a novice will embrace and understand.It covers all the major topics that VB programmers encounter, with useful examples (not just theoretical applications of the information), and without waffle or padding. It's so hard to find a book that cuts out all the junk and gets straight to the point, but Mr. Maloney has done it. I think this book is absolutely priceless.
 Distributed COM Application Development Using Visual Basic 6 February 23, 2001
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Very poor book. A lot of useless for VB programmer theory; several chapters on VB controls and technics that have no connection to the book topic - Distributed COM; too little about MTS, nothing practical about Distributed COM without MTS.
You will know VB COM after this book December 16, 2000
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I had read "Beginning VB6 Objects" by Wrox...mistake. Thankfully I was re-programmed by this book on vb com and able to distribute an n-tier app across a large network. Without Jim's book I don't know how it would have happened. There could have been more MTS material since it is a pretty big part of distributing an app, but the MTS chapters in here give you enough to get by.
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